Sekinindoruk, Cerkes River (Jurassic of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (40.9° N, 32.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 40.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kizilyarlar Member (Aktas Formation), Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• bed CS26 at the top of the Kizilyarlar Member just below the lava bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone

• soft substrates of shallow, quiet and protected areas of a carbonate platform under stressful environmental conditions
• reddish limestone with thick-shelled bivalves, intraclasts, bioclasts and volcanic fragments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Monari. 2003. A new genus and species of fimbriid bivalve from the Kimmeridgian of the western Pontides, Turkey, and the phylogeny of the Jurassic Fimbriidae. Palaeontology 46(5):857-884 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98532: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.10.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes morroensis
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha -
Nerineoidea indet.
Nerineoidea indet. Zittel 1873 snail
 Heterostropha - Nerinellidae
Eunerinea ex gr. nodosa
 Neritoidea -
Neritoidea indet.
Neritoidea indet. Rafinesque 1815 snail
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Cerkesia contiae n. gen. n. sp.
Cerkesia contiae n. gen. n. sp. Monari 2003 clam